I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that. For a movie star, maybe, but for a jobbing actor, that doesn't happen.
If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... I'd never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.
'Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.
I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
Actors really are superstitious. You can always spot a group of actors at a restaurant. They're the ones spitting on their knuckles and hurling salt everywhere.
There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.
They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!
I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.
I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be from New York.
I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?
I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
